Letters from Lesbos: A Recounting of Emergency Pedagogy in Action

Authors

  • Alys Mendus Independent

Keywords:

Educational alternatives, progressive education, alternative education, difference, emergency pedagogy

Abstract

It is a wet afternoon and there is a clatter of chairs as the group settle in a circle around me. Syrian boys and young men 11-18 years old, housed in makeshift “porta cabins,†on the island of Lesbos, waiting to be escorted to Athens. They are the unaccompanied minors: the young people sent alone or with siblings to make the journey overland to Europe to gain asylum for their family. And I am at this moment the Storyteller...

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Published

2016-01-31

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016)

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Other Contributions

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